INTERVIEW: Bourbon Subsea Services Stays Focused on Its Core Markets
Bourbon Subsea Services provides clients with a full range of services to assist at every stage of the life of their oil field, from the survey and exploration phases, during the subsea construction and the offshore operations, through to dismantling. In an interview with Subsea World News Patrick Belenfant, CEO of Bourbon Subsea Services, told us […]
Prysmian Wins Deer Island Interconnection Project
Prysmian has been awarded a new contract by Caldwell Marine International, a US construction contractor specialising in submarine utility operations, for the Deer Island – Massachusetts mainland interconnection. “This contract represents a very strategic opportunity for Prysmian Group as we move, following the acquisition of General Cable, to consolidate our presence in the […]
Eni Ready for Merakes Development Project Execution
Eni is set for the execution of the Merakes Development Project following the approval secured from the Minister of Energy of Indonesia and the authorization for the investment plan sanctioned by the board of directors. The Merakes development project, located in the Kutei Basin, offshore East Kalimantan, consists of the drilling and […]
Polarcus in West Africa Seismic Acquisition Project
Polarcus has received a contract for an XArray marine seismic acquisition project in West Africa. The project will start in Q1 2019, the company informed. The project is planned to last approximately two months. Following this award, the Polarcus fleet is 90% booked for Q1 2019. Polarcus did not reveal the name […]
OneSubsea – Subsea 7 Alliance Gets SNE FEED Job Off Senegal
The Rufisque Offshore, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore (RSSD) joint venture has agreed to begin front-end engineering design (FEED) activities following the award of the subsea FEED contract to Subsea Integration Alliance for the SNE field development-phase 1 offshore Senegal, Woodside the operator said on Monday. Subsea Integration Alliance is a partnership between OneSubsea, […]
Equinor Starts Up Deepest Field on Norwegian Continental Shelf
Equinor and its partners started production from the Aasta Hansteen gas field in the Norwegian Sea. Gas from the Aasta Hansteen field is available to the market for the first time and together with the Polarled pipeline the field opens a new region for gas export to Europe. “Aasta Hansteen is a pioneer. Located in […]
Plexus Buys into KMS | Subsea World News
Plexus has made an investment of £735,000 to acquire a 49% interest in KMS, a precision engineering business focused on the oil and gas industry. The transaction is said to be in line with management’s strategy to position Plexus as an IP-led company based around its POS-GRIP friction grip method of engineering with a design, […]
Magseis in OBS Nodes Sales Deal with BGP and CNPC
Magseis has signed a contract with BGP and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) for the sale of 17,000 MASS I ocean bottom seismic nodes and four MASS Modular handling systems. The sales contract follows from the Letter of Intent (LOI) signed with BGP and CNPC in October this year. First delivery is expected […]
Subsea 7 Bags Shell’s Shearwater Gas Expansion Award
Subsea 7 said it has been awarded a contract by Shell for the Shearwater Fulmar Gas Line (FGL) Re-Plumb Project, located some 225 kilometers east of Aberdeen. The contract value is said to be between $50 – $150 million. The engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) project workscope incorporates a 37-kilometer 24-inch export […]
Microsoft, Facebook, Acacia Demo 400G Over Marea Subsea Link
Acacia Communications announced the first 400G single carrier DWDM transmission on the 6,600 km Marea submarine cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Bilbao, Spain. The field demonstration was conducted by Acacia in collaboration with Microsoft and Facebook, and helped to demonstrate that improvements in capacity and spectral efficiency can enable increased utilization of deployed fiber […]